29 Again...?

Today is a really wet, wet, wet day.  It's been raining all day and so what better way to spend the day than making cards.  I've not been keeping up with making birthday cards,  and have loads of stamps and dies which I have been neglecting.  Somehow I always end up buying products faster than I can use them... sound familiar?

This is a card for a friend, whom I know won't mind a little teasing about his age.

I used the Paper Smooches stamp sets Surf and Turf and Birthday Sampler to make this fun card.  I love building a scene for my cards and the Surf & Turf critters are just perfect.  I also used the Border 1 Dies to create the sea and the land.  Thinking the card was a little bare, I added some white and gold glitter embossing powder on the kraft land section.

Hope you like the card ;)

Kary

Beach girl

Hi!  Just sharing a card using my first La-La Land stamp set.  I thought this little girl image is perfect for a summery Birthday card.  It was fun colouring her, she's pretty cute, isn't she?

Stamp set : Summer Marci

I forgot to note down the Copics I used to colour her.  The patterned paper is from October Afternoon, the dies used are from My Favorite Things and a Martha Stewart border punch.

Have a great week!
Kary

Birthday card

Hello Everyone! It's been so long since I last played with Flourishes Timeless Tuesday.  I have a stack of Flourishes stamps which have not seen ink, and it felt so good to start playing with them. The theme for this week is to create a Spring inspired card.

This card is for a friend of mine who celebrated her birthday this week.  She loves everything purple.  I'm not sure if these blossoms do come in purple, but I guess it's ok to have them in any colour I like ;)  The set I used is Bloomin' Aussie Florals, and the sentiment is from Botanical Bookplates vol 1.

I apologise for the photo as I had to take it at night.  I love how pretty the Flourishes die is, and I think it adds such interest to the card.  The set I used is Perfectly Pierced Classic Frames.

The Copic markers I used for this card are:

Petals - V000, V12 V15, V17
Flower centre - Y21, Y23, Y26
Leaves - G20, G21, G94
Outline - BG0000

Thanks for visiting today.
Kary

Birthday Card

Happy Tuesday!  Did you do any shopping over the weekend?  I certainly did my share of shopping for dies, stamps and papers.  It was fun!  I just wish I had an unlimited budget to spend :)

This card was made for a friend of mine who had his birthday recently.  Usually I never have suitable cards for guys but I think this one worked.  I used a digital image from Wee Stamps, and printed it on Neenah cardstock and coloured the image with Copic Markers.

The bunny's a cutie, isn't he?

Wishing you a wonderful week!
Kary

Inspired Stamps - Birthday Card

Hello! Today's Inspired Stamps' post is a Birthday card.  I used a combination of a few stamp sets to create the card, i.e. Proverbs 3:5, Comfort and Perfect Sentiments.

Hope you like the card.  Please visit the Inspired Stamps blog to see DeNetra's beautiful card and announcement of some winners!

Wishing all my American friends Happy Thanksgiving!  Have a wonderful celebration with your family and loved ones.

Blessings
Kary

A Birthday Card

It's been a lovely Spring weekend.  I found time to be home and work on some Birthday cards for friends... mostly late ;)  Still, better late than never, I suppose.

This little girl, Peggy is a Digital image by Sylvia Zet.  I loved colouring her, and even the sewing machine cooperated on this card.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp, "Sayings with Banner" a die & stamp set.

Have a great week!
Kary

Make A Wish

It's been a long long while since I last played in challenges.  It's been so busy the last few months.  I kept looking at all the stamps I've bought and wishing I had the energy and time to make something.  On Sunday, I finally made time to do some colouring and make a card!

I just love this sweet set from My Favorite Things - WTG Fairy Dust.  The photo isn't the best, as it's late in the night when I took it with my phone ;)  And I'm missing all my MFT dies which are still in boxes back in KL.  The card was made with this sketch in mind:

 

The copics colours I used are : Dress & Shoes - RV14, RV17, RV19; Skin - E000, E01, E13; Wings - RV10 (with Spica Clear pen for a touch of glitter);  Wand - Y35; Wall - BG000; Floor - E31, E11, E01.

Hope you're having a lovely day. 

Thanks for visiting me.

Kary

Sweet Birthday Wishes

Hello Friends!  Hope you are having a lovely weekend!  It was far too hot here to do much, but I did get round to make a few cards. One of the cards was for my favourite challenge - Waltzing Mouse Stamps Sketch #100!

When I saw the sketch, I knew I wanted to use the rose from the Roses in Bloom set - I had in mind a romantic birthday card, not sure why ;-)  Do let me know what you think, if it worked out.

I stamped the rose on white cardstock, masked it to stamp the second rose image.  Then I masked both the roses to stamp the large leaf as shown. The images were coloured with Copic Markers and fussy cut out.  The third rose was stamped on another piece of white cardstock.  After colouring the image, I fussy cut (lots of cutting..here) and adhered it to the first piece using pop dots.  The Copic Markers I used are : Roses (R02, YR00, YR0000, YR30) and Leaves (G40, G43, G46).

The cardbase (linen cardstock) was cut using Grand Rectangles and embossed.  On the patterned paper just above the cardbase, I adhered some chevron die-cuts (horizontally) and two crinkled ribbons in maroon and green (vertically), with a strip of die-cut in between them. For the Oval piece, I used the Floral Oval die - cut once with a maroon shimmer cardstock and again with a peach shimmer cardstock.  The centre piece of the maroon oval diecut was cut out along the tiny pierced border.  Using the Petite Ovals, I cut two sizes, one with the linen cardstock and another with the Cryogen (shimmer) white cardstock.  The Cryogen piece was sponged using Memento Peanut Brittle first before adhering the roses image on it. What a lot of layers huh.

The sentiment was from Compact Sentiments set, stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and cut and embossed with Petite Oval die.  To finish off the card, I die cut a butterfly and adhered it just above the roses.

Here's another look at the card :

This week's Waltzing Mouse sketch is Special as it's their 100th Sketch celebration.  There will be more lucky winners if more people participate in the challenge.  For every 50 participants, there will be an extra lucky prize for grabs.  And, to top it off, a lucky person will be chosen to be the Guest Mischief Maker for a month!  So, if you have never joined the challenge, it's a great time to do so.  I look forward to see your creation!

Thank you for visiting me.

Have a great day!
Kary

Products used : Waltzing Mouse Stamps sets Roses in Bloom and Compact Sentiments, Memento Rich Cocoa & Peanut Brittle, Copic Markers, Spellbinders Grand Rectangles, Floral Ovals, Petite Ovals, Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly die, My Favorite Things Solid Bracket border die-namics and Chevron Stripes die-namics, Crinkled ribbons - Maroon and Green, PTI Linen cardstock, Cryogen cardstock, Neenah Solar White cardstock, Maroon & Peach Shimmer cardstock, Webster's Pages Sweet Season 6x6 pad.

Mother's Birthday

My mum had her birthday this week.  She loves flowers and I thought she would adore this floral image by Flourishes on her card.  It's from the stamp set Mother's Words of Wisdom - how appropriate ;)

I had a tough time taking a photo of the card as the colours didn't seem quite the same as the actual card.  Nevertheless, I'm happy to report mum loved the card, and she has it on display in the house.  It's always such a great feeling to see your cards being loved.

I had all the copics I used listed but somehow I lost my original draft on blogger ;( . The patterned papers are from Studio Calico's Autumn Press and the tiny butterflies from a Martha Stewart punch.

I'm entering this for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #167 challenge & at Simon Says Stamp's Birthday challenge.  I have great love for flowers just like mum, and I guess you can tell how much I'm in love with Flourishes stamps.

Thanks for stopping by.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!
Kary

A Happy Birthday

It's another Birthday card to share today.  I love this happy MFT Pure Innocence - Sunshiny Day set, and I thought the happy colours of Echo Park's Splash papers go so well with the stamped image.  The cute PI was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa and coloured with Copic Markers. I used the Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles to cut and emboss the image piece.  On the red cardstock just behind the stamped image, I  stamped the word celebrate with white pigment ink so that it didn't look too bare.  The sentiment was from PI Birthday Princess set cut with the Oval tab Die-namics.

This is another of my pre-scheduled posting.  Hope you like the card.

Have a gorgeous day!!
Kary

Happy Bird-day!

I made this card a little while back and realised I've never shared it on my blog.  I can't recall what inspired me to it, cos this card has more patterned papers on it than usual {LOL!}, but I kinda like how it turned out.  The stamp sets used are from Paper Smooches (My Peeps - bird and Sentiment Sampler - sentiment) and the seam binding was inked with Milled Lavender Distress Stain.

It's the last week of my vacation already, and how time flies!  Wishing you a Lovely day!

Cheers
Kary

Waltzing Mouse Stamps Blog Party - 17.02.2012

Hello Friends!  It's time for this month's WMS Blog Party, and the theme is Looking forward to Spring.  Springtime brings to mind beautiful blooms and it's a great time to get out the camera.

For my card, I used my all-time favourite set of Waltzing Mouse stamps, Roses In Bloom.  I love roses and it's great to be able to colour the rose in any shade I like.  I used Copic Markers for the rose (Petals - R01, R20, R22 ; Flower centre - E00, E02, YR23, E15).

Just underneath the rose, is a stamp from the set Very Vintage Labels 18, I stamped it with Memento Rhubarb Stalk, and cut it out with Labels 18.  I also stamped the grid background stamp from the set Off Beat Backgrounds in Memento Angel Pink just for some added texture.

Here's the card:

The sentiment is from Eat Cake, another favourite set of mine, heat embossed in white. The sentiment was stamped in the same polka dot brown & pink paper and placed a little off to the left for some interest but not to take the eye away from the rose focal image.  I added a lace trim, an aqua ribbon & some pearls to finish off the card.

I hope you like the card.  Please click here for more WMS Inspiration and Fabulous creations.

Thanks for visiting me. Enjoy the Blog Party!!
Kary

Silver Fairy

What do you look for when shopping for stamps?  On the one hand, I love simple images for quick cards but  I'm also attracted to the pretty stamps which need colouring.  When I first started stamping, I stayed away from open images stamps, but, eversince I started collecting Copic markers, I'm finding that I love a good challenge in colouring.  Always happy to practise colouring, and to look forward to your feedback & suggestions, so I can further improve.

I've had this Silver Fairy stamp for several months, and this is my first attempt at colouring it.  Frankly, I'm a little intimidated by the image, but I reckon this is a "passable" attempt {lol}.

The image was coloured with Copic Markers and I'm sorry I didn't write down the colours.  The sentiment is from another Whimsy Stamps set Birthday Letter Seals.  Here's another view, and hopefully you can see a little sparkle on the card from my Atyou Spica Clear Glitter pen.

I'm submitting this for the Whimsy Stamps Challenge this week, Pearls or Blings.

Thanks for coming by today.  Have a great week!!
Kary

Happy Birthday

It was my brother's birthday yesterday... I can't believe how time has flown.  It seems just like yesterday when he was only a kid, and now he's not so young anymore. ;)  For his birthday card, I pulled out another stamp which I've had for awhile, which has not seen ink.  I reckon this Fred Bear stamp is really him - he has some serious travel bug in him.

The card was rather loosely based on the MFT sketch MFTWSC55.  I used papers from Echo Park's A Boy's Life.  The Fred Bear image (from Fred Bear takes a Hike set) was coloured with Copic Markers E31, E33, E35, E37 and to create a little texture I poured some Colourless Blender on a terry towel and dabbed it onto the image.  I kinda like this effect!  To add some interest I added a wooden button with the Game Spinner from Tim Holtz at the bottom of the card.  I think my brother was quite happy with the card.

The card was based on this MFT sketch:

It's almost Chinese New Year, where I am.  Tomorrow night, it's a reunion dinner night and we will be cooking almost the whole day ;)  I'll be back on Monday (Chinese New Year) with a bit of exciting news.

Have a Happy Weekend!!
Kary



(Products used : Stamps - MFT Fred Bear Takes a Hike, First Class Friend (sentiment), Die-namics - Tag, You're It, Oval Tab, Inks - Memento Rich Cocoa, Copic markers, Papers - Echo Park A Boy's Life & Dots & Stripes Candy shoppe, PTI cardstock, X-press It Paper, Woodend Button (Prima), Tim Holtz Game Spinner)

Cupcake for a Birthday Girl

Hi! Today, I have a special birthday card for a wonderful talented lady who has really inspired me.  She will be celebrating her 50th Birthday next month and she has issued an invitation for her blog readers to join her virtual party.  She is Virginia Lu... and you can read all about her birthday party here (there's some goodies she wants to share too).  Happy Birthday in advance, Virginia!!

Here's my card for you :

I was thinking that if we live in the same place, I'd bring you a cupcake, but since we are thousands of miles away, I'd just have to settle for a cupcake card.  I hope you like the card, Virginia.

Here's a look at the flower using Glitter Red felt

My card follows the MFT sketch found here:

Thanks for coming by today, and please visit Virginia to wish her Happy Birthday.

Smiles...

Stamps : MFT Pure Innocence Hello Cupcake & WTG You Take The Cake (sentiment)
Paper : Echo Park Victoria Gardens, Hero Arts Layering papers
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Copics : Dress & Shoes (R39, R37, R35, R32), Cupcake (RV00, RV10, RV11, B91, B93, B95, Y06, YR04, R39, R37, R35), Skin (E000, E01, E11), Hair (E21, E23, E25)
Others : MFT die-namics Prima Donna Petals & Crown border, i-rock, Spellbinders Labels 8, Glitter Red felt

Lily Pad Cards Inspiration Challenge

I hope you are having a marvellous weekend!  I borrowed a number of books from the library to read but I ended up sleeping half the weekend away ;-)

Today I have a card for the Inspiration challenge at Lily Pad Cards.   My card was inspired by the carnival theme.  Some of my best childhood memories were at the carnival, getting on the fun rides and having a try at the game booths. Carnival in my mind also involves the circus, which is the main subject of my card.

Here's a closer look:

I couldn't wait to ink up a new stamp set, by Taylored Expressions "Life is a Circus".  This set is perfect for colouring and I love the happy images and sweet sentiments.  All the stamped images were coloured with copic markers and cut out.  The train & sentiment were popped up with foam adhesive for added dimension.  The darker pink layer was embossed with two doilies dies for subtle interest.  To finish off the card, I added some white faux stitch lines.  What do you think?  It's a really bright card, isn't it?

My card above, was inspired by this card by Nancy.  I love how fun her card is, the bright colours and the ticket stamps.

Thank you for visiting today.  Do have a great week!

Stamps : Taylored Expressions Life is a Circus

Paper : Hero Arts Layering Papers Punch & Carnation

Ink : Memento Tuxedo Black & Rose Bud, Copic Markers

Other : MFT die-namics Decorative Duo, white gel pen

Calligraphy Paper

Yesterday, while out shopping for some stationery, I came across Chinese Calligraphy paper.  I was really curious if it would work with stamping.  The paper is really thin and soft, it's a little textured on one side and smooth on the other. 

Here's my card:

The paper takes to stamping beautifully, and I love that the grains of the paper show through and the ink does not bleed.  It's always fun to find new mediums to stamp on.  I used all images from Gina K stamps, and the card was inspired by their new challenge, Let's Be Krafty.

What are you creating this weekend?  I'd love to hear what you do.
Have fun!

Stamps : GKD Springtime Silhouettes (butterfly), Garden Silhouettes (sentiment)

Paper : GKD PLC Kraft, Calligraphy paper

Ink : Versafine Toffee & Onyx Black

Other : White gel pen, and Sepia marker

Birthday Wishes For You

Wow! I'm so honoured to be given an award for my Gallery at StampTV!!  It's an Awesome feeling, and I'm truly Thankful and Appreciative for this. StampTV is a Fabulous place to hang out - with Fantastic videos from Gina each week, challenges and of course the wonderful community of crafters there. It's especially dear to me as it's a place where I can connect with friends who love cardmaking and stamping. (Update : You can check out my featured cards here)

I have a card to share today which is a response to a challenge at StampTV - DIY Patterned Paper.

My background paper is made with stamps from three sets: Springtime Silhouettes (fancy swirl), Branching Out (berries) and Spring Basket (leaf). I stamped them using Memento inks.  The focal image is from Framed Greetings coloured with copic markers (B00, R81-frame, R0000, R01, R02-flowers, YG01, YG03, YG05-leaves & stem, BG11, YG22, BG10-butterfly).  There's still time to play along in this challenge, and you might win a stamp set of your choice!

Thank you for stopping by.

p.s. I just added a new gadget for followers at the side. It's a new thing for me, so I'd be so thrilled if you like what I create & would like to follow my journey. Thank you ;)

Stamps : Gina K Springtime Silhouettes, Branching Out, Spring Basket

Paper : Gina K PLC Ocean Mist, Lilybee Design Picket Fence, Pink & white cardstock

Ink : Memento Angel Pink, Summer Sky, New Sprout, Tuxedo Black, Copics

Others : twine, button, Spellbinders Labels 16, MFT Die-namics Scallop Ribbon Border

Round Shaped Card

It's the end of another weekend.  The weather seems crazy today - it was a heavy downpour with thunderstorms.  I've not seen such display of "angry" lightning across the sky for a long time.  But it was good to stay in and do nothing and in darkness too, as the lightning caused the power to keep tripping. 

But, after the rain, it was much cooler, and I was so glad to turn on my computer and follow the StampTV blog hop.  The inspiration for the blog hop was based on this sketch :

 

I think it's a terrific sketch and I couldn't wait to try it out.  Here's my card:

The focal image is a piece of sticky back canvas.  On it, I stamped the vine using Stazon Metallic Gold, and then added the flower in red.  The butterflies were stamped on white cardstock and coloured with copic markers (BG11, B00, YG05, YG11), then cut out and adhered to the canvas with Glossy Accents. To secure the card, I tied the top with some twine and a button.

I wish you a blessed week!

Stamps : GKD Branching Out (background), A Year of Borders (butterflies), Gifts From the Sea (sentiment)

Paper : GKD cardstock Pumpkin Spice, October Afternoon - Modern Homemaker

Ink : Stazon Metallic Gold, Versafine Satin Red & Vintage Sepia, Memento Tuxedo Black

Other : White gel pen, Spellbinders Lacy Circles, WRMK Corner Chomper, PTI jute Twine, i-rock blings